Responding to GET requests
Adding a simple GET
request support is fairly simple, and you've seen this before already in the app we built. Here is some sample code that responds to a GET
request and returns a simple JavaScript object as JSON. Insert the following code in the routes
section where we have the // TO DO: Setup endpoints ...
waiting comment:
router.get('/test', function(req, res) { var data = { name: 'Jason Krol', website: 'http://kroltech.com' }; res.json(data); });
Just like we set up viewModel
in Chapter 5, Templating with Handlebars, we create a basic JavaScript object that we can then send directly as a JSON response using res.json
instead of res.render
. Let's tweak the function a little bit and change it so that it responds to a ...
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